Basket With :03 Left Upsets Joliet West

Chris Michalak`s basket with three seconds left gave Joliet Catholic a 38-37 upset over No. 13 Joliet West Tuesday in the Class AA regional at Joliet Central.

Joliet Catholic (12-14) trailed 11-3 at the end of the first quarter and 19-11 at halftime.

Michalak finished with 11 points. Justin Matthews and Tony Marion scored 9 points each for Joliet West (19-7), the SICA West champions who were seeded No. 1 at Joliet Central.

At Batavia-Third-ranked East Aurora (24-1) had little trouble disposing of the host Bulldogs (7-19), building up a 58-20 halftime lead before cruising to a 103-48 victory. Thomas Wyatt had 21 points for the Tomcats.

At Fenton-Maine West (19-6) swept past Fenton 52-42 with Steve Cachur scoring 16 points. Fenton (8-18) trailed 45-40 with two minutes left, but missed the front end of a one-and-one and then committed three consecutive turnovers. Mike Grossi had 19 for the losers. Maine South (15-11) clobbered Maine East 51-36 with Bill Vrbancic scoring 17 points. Jason Grosman had 17 for Maine East (10-16).

At Andrew-Tom O`Neill and Chris Delaney scored 19 points apiece to lead Andrew (15-10) to a 93-53 thumping of winless Oak Forest.

At Granite City-LaPhonso Ellis scored 27 points to lead East St. Louis Lincoln (21-4), the defending Class AA state champion, to a 90-46 victory over Cahokia.

At Belleville East-With 40 seconds left, Forry Wells sank two free throws to put Belleville East (11-14) up 51-50, and Bernell Love clinched the 52-50 upset of Belleville Althoff with another free throw with 19 seconds left. Top- seeded Belleville Althoff went out at 22-3.

At Jacobs-Craig Wojas poured in a season-high 41 points to lead Jacobs

(19-7) to a 78-66 victory over Wauconda (0-23), which got 24 points from Chuck Cermak.

53-39 behind 16 points by Saul Modestas. R-B`s Kevin Zubor had a game-high 17. In the second game, Mike Weber had 21 points to lead St. Ignatius (10-16) to an 81-59 romp over Nazareth Academy (13-11).

At Rolling Meadows-Prospect (9-15) built a 23-13 halftime lead en route to a 51-45 victory over St. Viator (14-12). The Knights got 12 points from Jake Jacobsen. Chris Stanley`s 14 points led St. Viator.

At Homewood-Flossmoor-The host Vikings (14-10) outscored Marian 18-13 in the final quarter on their way to a 64-58 victory. Scott Jackson paced the winners with 20 points. Marian closed at 6-20.

At Benton-Mike Johnson scored 14 points to lift West Frankfort (13-14) to a 56-43 win over Harrisburg.

At Antioch-Todd Collis sank four straight free throws in the last two minutes and Frank Russell scored 19 points to lead Round Lake (19-8) to a 64-59 victory over Antioch. Scott Gooch had 18 for Antioch (7-19).